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Karie depicts the journey of two men through the villages on the banks of the fast-dying river Bharathapuzha (a character in the film, a sand smuggler, declares the river dead, though) and in that process holds a mirror to the ugly reality of caste in the supposedly progressive Kerala society. The opening sequence sets the tone for the movie with the scene where it shows a poster that advertises the sale of nutmeg seedlings. Nutmeg is called jathi, which also means caste, in Malayalam. There is a clever word play with the homonym (jathi = caste/nutmeg; jathithaikal vilpanakku, literally meaning nutmeg seedlings for sale) and the pun hits home with the precision of a sharp shooter. What follows is an expose of the magnitude of casteism that has imbrued into the so-called progressive society of Kerala. Karie doesn't just poke at the social realities, instead, with the clever use of dark humor, it goes deep and tears them open for everyone to self-introspect